On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 8:51 AM, <nux at li.nux.ro> wrote: > Hi, > > Been recently more and more tempted to use mock for building rpms, but > looking at it I have one problem. As far as I could read about it, mock > essentially rebuilds srpms so to use it I would need a separate "classical" > build environment to create those srpms in the first place. > Am I right or did I get something terribly wrong? You can use rpmbuild -bs --nodeps to build the SRPM without the dependency checking. The SRPM is just a compilation of the spec, source code, and patches. Ryan